German Model Houses for Workmen 
When in the nine¬ 
ties the factories in¬ 
creased, three new 
colonies (Alfredshof, 
Altenhof, and Fried- 
richshof) were found¬ 
ed. These new colo¬ 
nies, for which all 
modern sanitary ap¬ 
pliances have been 
uti li zed, h a v e been 
beautified also by the 
arrangement of the 
streets, variety in the 
buildings, arrange¬ 
ment of squares, etc. 
In the arrangement of the ground-plans the greater 
demands of modern times have also been taken 
into consideration, no dwellings of only two rooms 
have been built, but only those of three and more 
rooms and a better separation of the floors and 
water-closets has been observed, blouses for only 
one family have always a garden and those with many 
stories have verandas and balconies. In tbe kitchens, 
pantries and cupboards have been amply provided. 
The colony Alfredshof was built on the cottage 
plan with houses for one, two, three and four fam¬ 
ilies, each house being located in a little garden. 
In the houses for more than one family, every lodg¬ 
ing has its separate entrance through the garden. As 
a rule the houses for one family have five rooms, 
three on the ground floor and two above. The 
houses for more families contain lodgings with three 
and four rooms. The entrance is through a veranda 
from which there is also the entrance to the water- 
closet and the cellar. In Alfredshof there are at pres¬ 
ent 232 lodgings. 
'Fhe colony for In¬ 
valids (Altenhof) is 
built similarly to 
Alfredshof. It is sit¬ 
uated on the border 
of a forest and was 
erected by Mr. F. A. 
Krupp when in 1892 
his workmen erected 
a monument to his 
father. Fhe dwell¬ 
ings are given free for 
life to old, invalided 
workmen, the houses 
containing one, two 
or three lodgings of 
three rooms, each situated in a garden. Only in 
the case of houses for widows, dwellings of two 
rooms are arranged one above tbe other. 
Besides this there are two houses each for twelve 
single pensioners and one for six widows, in which 
the men have one room and the women one room 
and a small kitchen each. Besides this there is for 
general use two large halls in each house. In order 
to enable the partly feeble inmates to go to church 
a Protestant and a Catholic chapel was erected. 
The colony Friedrichshof is built on the plan of 
tenement houses. There is a separate entrance and 
staircase for every four to six families, every two 
or three families have a common wash kitchen, but 
each lodging bas its own entrance from tbe stair¬ 
case. The houses are two to three floors high and 
grouped around large courtyards which are laid 
out as gardens and for playgrounds. At the 
entrance to the colony there is a number of houses 
for two families with four to six rooms. A here are 
at present 200 lodgings. 
TYPE OF A ONE-FAMILY HOUSE—COLONY ALFREDSHOF 
GENERAL VIEW OF THE COLONY ALFREDSHOF 
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